Ahhh, these sure are good "slacking at work" material. Just listened to the Phantasy Star podcast today and it was music to my ears. I can't help but think about Shining Force 2 though whenever I hear Phantasy Star IV, since i think they're both pretty much near perfection in RPGs.

If you all ever want to go on a rant about the Shining titles, you would have my undivided attention! SF2 is still my favorite game of all time, but I love all the games in that series until Sega messed it all up after the departure from the Saturn.

So Xenoblade is the second coming of Jesus?Crud...I can only hope they port it to somewhere Sony-ish or Microsoft-ish (yeah, not getting my hopes up) because I'm not going to buy a console for a single game.I don't hate Nintendo, but there is really nothing else I want to play on the Wii, and I am not a fan of the wiimote either =/